Gautham Ramachandran is Co-Founder and CTO at Bidflow (YC S25), an AI copilot that helps electrical contractors automate estimating and win more bids. The platform streamlines the tedious process of electrical estimating by using AI to analyze documents, count symbols, and generate quotes.

Gautham was a top 5% competitive coder in the US and has 3 preprints related to reinforcement learning in the ICML conference. He bootstrapped his way to $120K in revenue at age 16, demonstrating entrepreneurial skills from an early age.

Gautham and co-founder Jesse Choe went door-to-door in the Bay Area to secure their first design partner, showing strong customer discovery skills. Both founders have family in the electrical contracting industry who experienced the pain points firsthand.

Bidflow is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch and targets the growing electrical construction market driven by the data center boom. The founders previously built Ghostship, an AI-powered QA testing platform for software companies.

Bidflow helps electrical contractors reduce estimating time from hours or months to minutes, enabling them to bid on more projects and win contracts faster. The platform combines AI automation with legacy software features in an all-in-one solution for electrical estimators.